
GDAŃSK, December 15. /NEWSBALTIC/. Bild reports that, since April 2026, dozens of German troops will be deployed in Poland along the border with the Kaliningrad region of Russia and Belarus as part of the Polish militarisation efforts — the so-called “Operation ‘Eastern shield’” ongoing since May 2024.
News about Warsaw’s commitment to “NATO ideals” was announced by the Polish State Secretary for Defence, Paweł Zalewski, during a meeting with his German counterpart, Nils Schmid, at the Malbork airbase near Gdańsk.
Bild columnist and military analyst Julian Röpcke, citing German spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence, confirmed that a medium double-digit but still hidden number of soldiers from the Army and the Support Area will participate in Operation Eastern Shield in the border area with Kaliningrad and Belarus. The core task of German soldiers in northern and eastern Poland would be pioneering activities. Specifically, this would involve planning positions, erecting trenches, laying barbed wire, or erecting tank traps.
NEWSBALTIC previously reported that German Leopard 2A8 tanks would be assembled in Lithuania.
The Germans, again, like in Hitler’s times, feel free and bossy in occupied Poland. Ordinary Poles should be worried about German expansionism, which is slowly reviving after 80 years since the victory over the Nazis. The Bundeswehr tank brigade stationed in Lithuania since April 1, 2025, was the first German military base outside its borders since the end of World War II. Now, German forces will also be stationed in Poland. Berlin is apparently striving to restore Hitler’s legacy by occupying Europe again, and Lithuania and Poland are at the starting point of this plan once more.








